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Climate change and equity
No full textThe Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition honours the work and memory of the late Professor Gavin Mooney, a health economist who was a tireless advocate for social justice in local, national and international arenas.
Launched in 2013, the competition seeks to draw public attention to social justice and health equity concerns, and to recognise the public-interest value of writing and writers.
The inaugural competition called for essays on the theme of climate change and equity, in recognition of the work of Professor Mooney’s late partner Dr Delys Weston. Each year the competition will call for entries related to a theme around equity and social justice.
Sydney GP Dr Tim Senior took out the inaugural 2013 prize with his essay “Climate Change and Equity: Whose Language Is It Anyway?”. The judges said the winning entry challenges the language of climate change activism, and also incorporates the voices of those who are most likely to be affected by climate change.
The four runner-up entries are by Steve Campbell and Lucie Rychetnik, Oscar McLaren, Peter Boyer and Dora Marinova, and Fergus Green
An overlapping spheres model of cell-cell interactions
No full textCode for a Part B BSP student project in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford supervised by Fergus Cooper.
The main author is not yet attributed to maintain anonymity until after the project has been graded
Charles Church House
No full textHeron’s topographic enquiry addresses the representation of landscape and architecture in relation to history, memory and perception. Four photographs from Heron’s research project ‘Charles Church Houses’ were selected for inclusion in How We Are: Photographing Britain, the first major exhibition of photography held at Tate Britain (2007). Curated by Professor Val Williams and Susan Bright, the exhibition is an investigation into how photographers have represented Britain. Williams and Bright contributed essays that reference Heron’s images, along with texts by Martin Parr, Gerry Badger and Kevin Jackson, in an accompanying illustrated catalogue published by Tate Publishing (ISBN 978-1-85437-714). ‘Charles Church Houses’ is an extended series of photographs representing modern detached executive family houses, located in parts of the ‘commuter belt’ around London. The research questions how tensions between perceptions of tradition and modernity, culture and nature in the domestic built environment can be represented by photography. The work draws upon and references histories of both landscape photography and the photograph as a document used in forms of conceptual art. Semiotic theory further informs the production of the photographs, focusing upon complex illusions of spatial and temporal confluences. These are embodied by particular architecture, landscaped gardens and vehicles that constitute the dominant subjects of the photographs. Heron’s methodologies seek to synthesise historical and contemporary practice with theory. He uses large format camera technology in overcast daylight to register detail and to achieve a consistent viewpoint between subjects. Heron’s photographs were featured as part of an exhibition review in the Daily Telegraph by Benjamin Secher (2 August 2007) and in the Observer magazine (29 April 2007)
A Fergus Hume Novel's Occult Folklore and the Ancient Continent of Lemuria
No full text"[He was] wondering what thought hovered at the hack of his brain about Easter Island. He had visited that lonely and little known spot during his travels in the company of a friend given to occult studies, who insisted that the dismal spot of land was one of the remaining portions of the great Continent of Lemuria, which was said to have stretched from New Zealand to Africa." --Fergus Hume, 'The Sacred Herb' (1908), p. 41. "'This cup', said Horace, raising it aloft, 'is thousands and thousands of years old. It is a remnant of Lemurian civilization.'" --op. cit., p. 319. These quotations come from near the beginning and end, respectively, of one of the more surprising middle-period novels from the prolific Fergus Hume (1859-1932), author of 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab' (1886), and sometime resident of Melbourne, where his remarkable literary career began. Appropriately both the Victorian and New South Wales State Libraries in Australia hold copies of this rare text, 'The Sacred Herb' which is filled with passing references to: Australia (p. 274); New Zealand (p. 41), and Hokitika (p. 18) in particular; Polynesia (passim and especially p. 294); the South Seas, Samoa, Tahiti and the British Empire and its colonies
Erratum:Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of perhexiline in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction syndrome (Future Cardiology (2014) 10:6 (693-698))
No full textFollowing publication of the Clinical Trial Protocol by Satnam Singh, Roger Beadle, Donnie Cameron, Amelia Rudd, Maggie Bruce, Baljit Jagpal, Konstantin Schwarz, Gemma Brindley, Fergus McKiddie, Chim Lang, Dana Dawson and Michael Frenneaux, titled ‘Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of perhexiline in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction syndrome’, which appeared in the December 2014 issue of Future Cardiology (Future Oncol. 10[6], 693–698 [2014]), it has been brought to our attention that the author names were presented incorrectly as:Satnam Singh, Roger Beadle, Donnie Cameron, Amelia Rudd, Maggie Bruce, Baljit Jagpal, Konstantin Schwarz, Gemma Brindley, Fergus Mckiddie, Peter Nightingale, Chim Lang, Dana Dawson and Michael Frenneaux.The correct presentation should be:Satnam Singh, Roger Beadle, Donnie Cameron, Amelia Rudd, Maggie Bruce, Baljit Jagpal, Konstantin Schwarz, Gemma Brindley, Fergus Mckiddie, Chim Lang, Dana Dawson and Michael Frenneaux.The authors and editors of Future Cardiology would like to sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused our readers.<br/
Renewed Trombe wall passively reduces energy consumption
No full textIn order to reduce the energy demand of households, a new type of Trombe wall is being designed during a ‘research through design project’ called ‘Double Face 2.0’. A Trombe wall is a passive system that reduces the energy demand of a building. In winter, it captures the heat from the sun during the day and releases this heat into the building at night. In summer, it captures the heat from internal sources during the day and releases that heat at night towards outdoors. First simulations showed that our prototype of a lightweight, translucent, adjustable Trombe wall reduces the energy demand for heating of a typical Dutch household by 25-30%. Instead of stone-like materials, the new type of Trombe wall will consist of translucent materials: phase change material (pcm) and insulating aerogel. The insulation gives the opportunity to direct the thermal mass of the pcm. In this way, the system is adjustable for cooling and heating purposes. A selection of the design concepts is described in this paper, explaining the design choices and method of validation. Depending on the level of detail, different simulation software has been used. This paper describes the comparison and the experiences of using it.Accepted Author ManuscriptBuilding PhysicsDesign Informatic
Early Irish law : The present state of research
No full textEarly Irish Law : the present state of research.
The author discusses the developments in the study of Early Irish Law since the publication of D. A. Binchy’s six-volume Corpus Iuris Hibernici in 1978.
He deals in particular with the aims of the Early Irish Law Series, in which three volumes have already been published, and discusses current thinking on the problem of the authorship of the law-texts.Le Droit irlandais ancien : état présent des recherches.
L’auteur discute les derniers développements dans l’étude du Droit irlandais ancien, depuis la publication du Corpus Iuris Hibernici de D.A. Binchy, en six volumes, en 1978. Il traite en particulier des objectifs de la collection “Early Irish Law Series”, dont trois volumes sont déjà parus. Il discute aussi des opinions récentes concernant les auteurs des textes de lois.Kelly Fergus. Early Irish law : The present state of research. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 29, 1992. Actes du IXe congrès international d'études celtiques. Paris, 7-12 juillet 1991. Deuxième partie : Linguistique, littératures. pp. 15-23
Indoor environmental quality, energy effciency and thermal comfort in the retroftting of housing: A literature review
No full textBuilding retrofitted to be resilient in the face of future climates may present risks for the health and comfort of the occupants, due to the indoor environmental quality changes involved under current building practices. This chapter is a literature review of recent peer-reviewed papers from a variety of fields identifying such potential hazards. Three topics are investigated: building envelope, HVAC systems and occupants. In terms of the building envelope, resilient buildings currently lead to more airtightness and thermal insulation, which can create humidity problems, accumulation of air pollutants or overheating. HVAC systems, however efficient, can jeopardize the indoor environmental quality, through ducts, filters, noise and maintenance. Respiratory system, eyes and skin conditions can arise with certain retrofitting measures. Moreover, such measures do not necessarily lead to energy savings, partly due to the occupants and their behaviours and partly due to the technologies and their feedback. Human factors should be combined into the development of retrofitting technologies. Thus, interdisciplinarity is needed to develop resilient buildings that will be energy-efficient and also healthy and comfortable for their occupants and the technologies need to be researched as interdependent components to be synthesized in their performance to result in a single enhanced goal.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Indoor Environmen
Historical fiction as seen in the novelone thousand white womenby Jim Fergus
No full textJimFergus , el autor de la novela ,Mil mujeres blancas, combina hechos históricos con personajes de ficción. Será interesante investigar y señalar cuál de los elementos de la novela son históricos , y cuales son de ficción . Por lo tanto, el objetivo principal de la tesis es analizar cómo el autor ha creado esta interesante combinación de realidad y ficción en su obra. El factor más importante de esta novela es la información que el autor da en relación con el trato de las mujeres en las tribus de los Americanos nativos en el pasado. La información se basa en los hechos. En esta tesis se desarrollarán tres ideas.
En primer lugar, conocer el tipo de novela que se llama ficción histórico.
En segundo lugar, analizar la novela de JimFergus, Mil mujeres blancas, con respecto a sus elementos de ficción y de historia . En tercer lugar, describir la forma de vida de los Cheyennes y el trato que daban a las mujeres de sus tribus, y de esta manera mostrar la condición de inferioridad a las mujeres Cheyenne en comparación con el estado de los hombres.This thesis proposes to study how Jim Fergus, the author of the novel One Thousand White Women combines historical facts with fictional characters and plots to create a new novel of the category, historical novel. It will be interesting to investigate and point out which of the elements of the novel are historical, and fictional. Therefore, the objective of the thesis is to analyze how the author has created this interesting combination of reality and fiction in his work. The most original factor of this particular novel is the information that the author gives concerning the treatment of women in the Native American tribes in the past. The information is based on fact. In this thesis three ideas will be developed.
First, to know about the type of novel called historical fiction.
Second, To analyze Jim Fergus` novel, One Thousand White Women, with respect to its elements of fiction and history.
Third, to describe the Cheyenne way of life and treatment that the Cheyennes gave to the women of their tribes, and to show the inferior status relegated to the Cheyenne women compared to the status of the men.
Fourth, to indicate how some of the material from the novel could be used to teach English in a high school in Cuenca.Licenciada en Ciencias de la Educación en Lengua y Literatura InglesaCuenc
“Long before the time of Cú Chulainn”: Fergus mac Leite’s afterlives and the Celtic Revival
No full textImthechta Tuaithe Luchra agus Aided Fergusa is a lengthy medieval Irish prosimetric saga, composed sometime c. 1300, and preserved in a manuscript from the early 1500s. The text relates, in a burlesque, farcical, and, at times, obscene manner, the adventures of the legendary king of Ulster, Fergus mac Leite, with various members of the eponymous Tuath Luchra, a diminutive race of beings who correspond with the ‘leprechaun’ of later folklore, along with Fergus’ death while fighting a monster dwelling within present-day Dundrum Bay.While this text has received relatively little critical attention, it has had a noteworthy afterlife: to give two examples, the first two parts of Johnathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), featuring the diminutive Lilliputians and gigantic Brobdingnagians respectively, seem to have taken inspiration from this text; and the name of the primary antagonist of the horror film Leprechaun (1993), Lubdan, is taken indirectly from this text.The first and, at present, only English translation of the text was published by Standish O’Grady in 1892 as part of the collection Silva Gadelica. O’Grady’s translation is marked by a florid style and several lacunae. Linguistically difficult or repetitive passages are absent in the translation, while other omissions seem more purposeful, as several episodes which may have offended Victorian mores are left out. As the only English translation, O’Grady’s interpretation of the text formed the basis for subsequent retellings, many of which were aimed at children, including the Irish-language author Peadar Ua Laoghaire’s novella Eisirt (1909).In this presentation, I intend to trace the line of development from the later Medieval saga to Ua Laoghaire’s novella; discussing the various decisions and omissions made by the authors in order to make the text more palatable to their different audiences, within the context of the conservative cultural revival of pre-independence Ireland.</p
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